Jordan detains Muslim Brothers leadership banning them from sermons
Jordan, Politics, 9/11/2004

The Jordanian authorities launched a campaign of arrest in the lines of the Muslim Brothers groups including leaderships in the first line and members of parliament.

Among the main detainees are the two members in the executive office of the group Ahmad al-Zarqan and the former parliamentarian Ahmad al-Kafawin.

Each of the two former parliamentarians Ibrahim Zeid al-Keilani and Ahmad al-Koufahi were admitted to hospital following a row with the security men.

This came, within a campaign of summoning of members and leadership of the Muslim Brothers, not employed in the Ministry of al-Awqaf ( Scholars and Imams), who teach and preach in the mosques unofficially.

The security forces summoned several Muslim Brothers members to investigate them, and many of them were released after signing a commitment not to teach nor preach in mosques.

In a press statement, the secretary general of the Muslim Brothers group in Jordan, Abdul Miguid al-Zuneibat, condemned this campaign and described it as brutal. He said it falls in the campaign of targeting the group locally and internationally, considering that this is directed against the nation and its educational curricula.

He added that the group met with the prime minister Faisal al-Fayez in the presence of several ministry officials who promised to bring back the preachers to their forums who were deprived of them in earlier decisions. The promises were not fulfilled, he said.

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